Usage examples for jacobite:

• They had taken part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fled abroad on its failure. "Rousseau Volumes I. and II." – John Morley

• Another Jacobite song was the cause of an amusing incident at Edinburgh. "Charles Dickens and Music" – James T. Lightwood

• Dundee and his Highlanders were victorious, but Dundee himself was killed in the battle, and his death proved a fatal blow to the Jacobite cause. "An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)" – Robert S. Rait

• Mr. Lloyd and his lady were with us, and Mr. Carvel told his old stories of the time of the First George, many of which I can even now repeat: how he and two other collegians fought half a dozen Mohocks in Norfolk Street, and fairly beat them; and how he discovered by chance a Jacobite refugee in Greenwich, and what came of it; nor did he forget that oft- told episode with Dean Swift. "Richard Carvel, Complete" – Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009